Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solicitor who became paralysed after a routine jaw operation has lost her fight for compensation . |
| 2 | Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ? |
| 3 | After being on external display at Lasham , Hants , for twenty years , Dakota G–AMPP has been purchased by Mike Woodley and is being dismantled and moved to North Weald , where , due to its poor condition , it will be examined to see if a restoration programme is viable . |
| 4 | In an ideal environment all the people within a single organisation would use the same software but as the ideal is seldom achieved it is worth checking to see if a package can at least handle the industry standard DIF ( Data Interchange Format ) file format . |
| 5 | The SSPCA freely admits that feeding livestock on the hills runs contrary to the accepted practice in many hill farming areas but it is of the opinion that the time has come when a stand has to be made . |
| 6 | This test ( Fenn 1979 ) was designed to determine whether a child who is able to understand single words can also understand the relationships which are expressed by different forms of word order . |
| 7 | Once this stage is completed , one needs to decide if a dressing is needed and if so , what type to use . |
| 8 | The question has arisen whether a refusal on general grounds constitutes a valid exercise of discretion . |
| 9 | This year the same problem has arisen as a result of ‘ overtrading . ’ |
| 10 | has arisen where a judge has passed a personal view about a woman , has n't he . |
| 11 | A police inquiry has begun after a pensioner died of a heart attack following a police raid on her house . |
| 12 | An investigation has begun after a man was found dead in a police cell . |
| 13 | An inquiry has begun after a hospital patient was found hanged . |
| 14 | He will be no more able to give an explicit account of the methods and skills he has acquired than a master-carpenter will be able to fully describe what lies behind his skills . |
| 15 | Fokin agreed to continue to serve until a replacement could be appointed . |
| 16 | At Highlander , workshops of this sort of cultural exchange play a critical role in reaching across the natural human barriers which we can expect to find when a number of different people from widely different communities , cultural backgrounds , and economic and social circumstances are thrown together for a weekend to discuss their common problems in an attempt to find solutions . |
| 17 | The kitchen of a house in Devon Close , redcar was badly smoke damaged after a cooker caught fire at about 5.35pm yesterday . |
| 18 | It is difficult to project one 's mind to a subsequent sale where the receipt has to be produced , but one can visualise difficulty where the solicitor for a purchaser objects to the receipt and refuses to settle until a receipt in conformity with the Form provided is produced . |
| 19 | This is said to exist where a company has a number of large shareholders who engage in limited co-operation to protect their common interests , but are insufficiently cohesive and lack the necessary co-ordination to give rise to majority or minority control . |
| 20 | We soon learnt to notice if a bed was pulled away from the wall . |
| 21 | Thus , dominance can be seen to arise where a firm has the power to behave independently of its competitors and customers , and this may result from a combination of a number of factors , none of which separately would necessarily imply dominance ( e.g. United Brands case ) . |
| 22 | Basically communication is said to occur when a person ( the sender ) has a message which he sends in a particular medium , so that it is received by a recipient in whom it produces a response , followed by feedback to the sender ( Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 23 | Certainly nothing that I recall seeing as a result of the intercept ever contradicted that assessment . |
| 24 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
| 25 | Coloured cards or strips can be used to indicate whether a room is vacant , occupied by staff , being cleaned or out of commission . |
| 26 | Years of caring for a sick , disabled or elderly relative , or months of waiting to hear whether a job is to end , cause stress to accumulate in our lives . |
| 27 | A BUS company is anxiously waiting to hear if a Government minister will break the deadlock over a deal which could bring a Sainsbury superstore to Darlington . |
| 28 | Bill and wife Sally , 35 , are waiting to hear if a housing association will buy the house and rent it back to them . |
| 29 | The central issues which require resolution are the criteria to be used to determine whether a capital instrument represents debt or equity and the treatment of instruments like convertible debt which will or may be exchanged for other instruments . |
| 30 | Two general techniques have been used to determine whether a string is a legal combination of characters . |